If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

God of hope.

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night.

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

I didn't know there was something really wrong, because everyone was crazy. It's just that everyone else was still functional. I didn't realize that I was any worse off.

I've always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

I don't do fad things or diets - they don't work.

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.